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Pensioners hammered with 88% rise in ground rents, says Better Retirement Housing

Protestors gather outside ANOTHER housebuilder: Galliford Try

Neo Bankside leaseholders offered freehold for £4.8m, but have eight weeks to agree deal

Ground Rents Income Fund plc says it wants to be a ‘socially responsible landlord’. How about: socially responsible ex-landlord?

Murky investors hitching a ride on the English (and Welsh) homeowner, thanks to leasehold

‘Fright night’ for Taylor Wimpey as profits fall 24% over leasehold scandal, says Times

Roger Southam silenced on LEASE website as blog is removed

Our ground rents are fair, says McCarthy and Stone (even though they go up to £600 and are for no service whatsoever)

Buyers would have ignored ground rent clauses even if we had told them, says conveyancer Rob Hailstone

Savills and Allsops: Why ground rents from people’s home are just so ‘attractive’

Leasehold houses have at last got the scandal of ground rents into the nation’s consciousness. But this is much worse …

The sector fights back … er, deploying LEASE chair Roger Southam

Ground rent protestors stage ANOTHER demonstration against leasehold houses and charges

Daily Mail reports E&J Estates and wine-growing freeholder James Tuttiett

Spire View, in Pickering, shows a commonhold future with no leases at all, says Sunday Times

Daily Telegraph reports the new-build leasehold houses ban

Scandal makes Ground Rents Income Fund plc fall £6m since March but … it has paid out 40.6% in three years

Housebuilders and stooge conveyancing solicitors face legal action, reports The Times

Guardian says: It’s time to send the feudal leasehold system crashing. Amen, to that

Guardian (again today) on freeholders’ endless fees

James Tuttiett’s tangled web of E&J freeholds scrutinised by the Guardian

First squawk from the (smaller) house builders

Patrick Collinson, of The Guardian, … on leasehold

Media storm over leasehold as government declares ban on leasehold houses and rip-off ground rents

Daily Mail on leasehold houses and doubling ground rent scandals

One article among many yesterday … from LKP

Government to ban leasehold houses and set ground rents ‘as low as’ zero

Englishman’s home isn’t a castle: it’s a revenue stream for an offshore company thanks to national housebuilders, Justin Madders tells the Commons

I had to spend £14,000 to change double ground rent to RPI at Ausden Place. But will I get compo from Taylor Wimpey?

Signal Building leaseholders told to sell flats back to Southwark council

Adriatic Land and other freeholders ‘acting like robbers’, Commons told

Who are Dublin-based Boardwalk Finance DAC and Jetty Finance DAC? Why do they own freeholds to people’s homes? And why are they based abroad?

BBC R4 You and Yours features £36,000 car crash leasehold defiance over Southwark major works scheme